Leadership Courses
Named after the values we hold around DBEIA, our Leadership Courses introduce students to early and critical leadership skills. Through each course, students learn the leadership skills listed below through different applications to ensure they understand how these skills are exhibited within various industries.
We have five courses, spanning from our Discovering Leadership, for our students just beginning to discover the world of career pathways and leadership, and ending with our Empowering Leadership course, for our students who have already been exploring career pathways and are looking to further step into their leadership. The Discovering Leadership course is a pre-requisite to some courses*.
Students seeking career exposure
Requires a minimum of 10 sessions
Sessions are between 45 minutes to 3 hours
Between 20 - 30 students depending on course
Leadership Course Curriculum
1. ACCOUNTABILITY - BALANCING COMMITMENTS
2. CONFLICT MANAGEMENT - INTERNAL AND INTERPERSONAL
3. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
4. NON-POSITIONAL LEADERSHIP - LEADING FROM WITHIN
5. DEFINING YOUR VISION
6. THE IMPORTANCE OF LISTENING
7. ENGAGING IN PRODUCTIVE SELF-REFLECTION AND WELLNESS
8. GOAL-SETTING
9. SOCIAL MEDIA AND YOUR PERSONAL PROFILE
10. LEADERSHIP ESSENTIALS: INTEGRITY, EMPATHY, AUTHENTICITY EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMILITY
Our Leadership Courses
DISCOVERING LEADERSHIP
Through the Discovering Leadership course, participants discover how 10 leadership skills are exhibited within different career sectors. Led by a Career Pathways Facilitator and peer-leaders within each Career Cohort, participants DANCE (Discover, Analyze, Note, Collaborate, and Educate) to learn about careers of interest.
Participants are placed into 1 of 5 Career Cohorts, depending on the interests of the overall group. Then each Career Cohort learns each skill through the perspective of that career and shares their learnings with other cohorts.
Participants gain:
Early career exposure
New vocabulary and college knowledge
Peer Leadership
Public Speaking
Increased self-awareness, confidence, and student engagement
INSPIRING LEADERSHIP
Through the Inspiring Leadership course, participants discover the 10 leadership skills, just as in our Discovering Leadership course using the DANCE process, and Career Cohorts are inspired to create social ventures that deliver a solution for a community problem.
Participants apply our MUSIC process, match skills to a business component, understand how it’s applied in a startup, seek data and evidence to inspire a social solution to a problem and create their venture. This entrepreneurship based course is led by one of our Career Pathways Facilitators.
Participants gain:
Early career exposure
New vocabulary and career knowledge
Leadership
Entrepreneurial Mindset & Public Speaking
Increased self-awareness, confidence, and student engagement
ACTIVATING LEADERSHIP*
Through the Activating Leadership course, participants learn 10 leadership skills by activating their civic leadership within their own communities. They use the WRITE process (wonder, reflect, influence, track, and empower) to learn how civic leaders empower communities.
Participants are placed into 1 of 5 Career Cohorts, depending on the interests of the overall group. Then each Career Cohort learns each skill through the perspective of that civic interest and shares their learnings with other cohorts.
Participants gain:
Exposure to community needs
New vocabulary
Peer Leadership
Civic Leadership
Increased self-awareness, confidence, and student engagement
BUILDING LEADERSHIP*
Through the Building Leadership course, participants will use the 10 leadership skills to learn financial literacy and how to manage a personal budget. Led by a Career Pathways Facilitator, this course will help them build their financial plans for their futures.
Participants will SING, save, invest, net, and gain, to learn financial literacy & build personal budgeting and economic skills.
Participants must have successfully completed the Discovering Leadership course, a pre-requisite to the Building Leadership course.
Participants gain:
Personal Finance and budgeting skills
New vocabulary
Setting Personal Financial Goals
Financial literacy
Increased self-awareness, confidence, and student engagement
EMPOWERING LEADERSHIP*
Through the Empowering Leadership course, participants reflect on their experiences to empower their leadership. A Career Pathways Facilitator guides them through our ART process, analyzing a case study, reflecting on experiences, and completing a task in this discussion based course.
Participants learn 10 leadership skills through the lens of diverse professionals from our Speakhire Series, and then reflect on how they have used each skill, proving they are already leaders.
Participants gain:
Early college and career exposure
New vocabulary and college knowledge
Empathetic Leadership understanding
Improved conversational English skills
Increased self-awareness, confidence, and student engagement
Career Pathways Facilitators
Our facilitators are educators and social workers ready to empower your students.
Lamon Chapman
Hye-Yung Hickman
Francesca Gonzalez
"I just finished watching your Speaker Series event and was very delighted to attend. I work for the Department of Education as the Family Leadership Coordinator. I'm excited to share this Speaker Series talk to our community since I truly believe that they would benefit from hearing this powerful story."
-NYC Educator
“This course was awesome! I related to so many of the diverse professionals and even ended up watching many of their full Speaker Series talks. I learned a lot of leadership skills and now feel confident about conflict management, organization, goal-setting, and setting my vision as a leader. I am considering what careers I want to pursue in the future a lot more than I was before this course because of how meaningful it was.”
-Empowering Leadership course participant
"The Empowering Leadership Course is one of the most beneficial programs I've seen for our students across all our schools because it teaches 21st Century skills and concepts while improving the self-efficacy of students through the diverse professionals of the Speaker Series you connect them with, helping them see themselves in future careers."
-Texas Educator